Spotlight | United Kingdom
New round between Gerrard and Azima in London court

United Kingdom, United States
End of ENRC v SFO bread and butter for investigators

In dropping its investigation into Kazakh miner ENRC, the Serious Fraud Office is closing the door on one of the largest intelligence sagas of the past decade. The multifaceted case had been a healthy money earner for a slew of investigators.

India, Israel, United Kingdom, United States
As hacking accusations against it mount up, CyberRoot strikes back in Indian courts

Indian cyber intelligence company CyberRoot is beating its own path in the face of the ongoing investigator and hacker-for-hire wars between ENRC-funded camps and those led by lawyer Neil Gerrard, Dechert and the Ras Al Khaimah emirate.

United Kingdom
Stuart Page removed from target list in RAK-ENRC legal battle

The legal teams leading the fight against former Dechert lawyer Neil Gerrard have dropped the charges they had been levelling at business intelligence and security industry veteran Stuart Page, Africa Intelligence understands.

Spotlight | United Kingdom, United States
Israeli Corporate Intelligence veteran Amit Forlit dragged into Ras al Khaimah battles

Legal efforts to corner Neil Gerrard, the arch-enemy of Kazakhstan's ENRC group, are gathering pace on three continents, increasingly exposing the activities of the intelligence firms involved and endangering the existence of Britain's Serious Fraud Office.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
17 Arm, Felton, ADIT, ENRC

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week we go to Washington, London and Paris.

Washington ENRC on the move in the US.

Paris Former Dassault adviser Bruno Clermont contracted by ADIT.

London-Dubai 17 Arm loses its lords.

London City of London police veteran Chris Felton to join private sector.

Europe, Kazakhstan
ENRC heir Ibragimov Jr partners with Airbus for Kazakh space project

A Franco-Kazakh aerospace joint venture, in which Airbus Defence and Space is a shareholder, has teamed up with Shukhrat Ibragimov, heir to one of Kazakhstan's most powerful oligarchs and former ENRC boss, the late Alijan Ibragimov.

Lebanon
London court decision gives hope to expats with dollars in Lebanese banks

Hoping to avoid trial in the UK where it has a large client base, Banque Libano-Française has failed to demonstrate that British courts do not have jurisdiction to rule on a dispute with one of its clients, creating a precedent at a time where many Beirut banks are worried their overseas clients will launch proceedings outside Lebanon to recover dollar deposits held with them.

Spotlight | India, United Kingdom, United States
Aditya Jain follows in the footsteps of cyber privateer Rajat Khare under the watchful eye of Indian intelligence

After having drawn little attention to date, Aditya Jain, who works as a consultant for PWC, has been forced into public view by the North Carolina court handling a computer piracy case brought by former arms transporter Farhad Azima against the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.

United Kingdom
Investigator Cameron Findlay stirs Dechert and Gerrard's wrath in ENRC trial

ENRC's court case against its former lawyers and the Serious Fraud Office got underway last week, putting the spotlight back on an array of consultants who have worked for the parties over the course of their 10-year battle.

United Kingdom, United States
Azima targets Gerrard through Del Rosso

A few days after filing a complaint in North Carolina against investigator Nick Del Rosso of Vital Management Services (IOL [...]

United Kingdom
Quaestio turns tables on Ras Al Khaimah's investigators

An investigation by the corporate intelligence firm Quaestio forms the basis of the particulars of a claim by the law firm Stokoe against well-known investigators Patrick Grayson and Stuart Page.